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Addicts of hard-boiled police Houtenants will be intrigued by MacLane's wood-rasp voice, with which he does the thinking that finally cracks the case. An honest gambler tries to sell his properties to a friend he hopes will run them with equal integrity, in order that in may marry a Boston girl who doesn't like roulette. This admirable attempt is thwarted by the murder of the gambler's friend, and the chase is on. Another murder throws suspicion on all sorts of people, but MacLane and Farrell are never fooled for a minute, or at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/5/1937 | See Source »

...spread stiffly. After a few seconds, the epileptic's face goes dusky. He begins to jerk his arms, legs and body, roll his head, clamp his jaws, drool foam. Such an attack may last two or three minutes, after which the epileptic grows limp, breathes with a heavy rasp, drops into deep unconsciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Epileptic Brain Waves | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...Polish Minority Treaty, vesting in the League authority to compel the Polish Government to give adequate protection to Jews and other "minority peoples" in Poland. Without success Poland has several times urged the Great Powers to put their minority peoples under similar protection. Last week Colonel Beck arose to rasp: "Pending the bringing into force of a general and uniform system for the protection of minorities, my Government finds itself compelled to refuse, as from today, all co-operation with international organizations [i. e. the League] in the matter of supervision of the application by Poland of a system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Old Diplomacy | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

There are several features in the film which may be singled out for appreciation. Some gypsy Russian singing and dancing forms an admirable interlude, and there is some fine photography of trees. The best characterization is that of the idiot Smerdyakov, played by Fritz Rasp...

Author: By D. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...picture of an ungainly witch swaddled in an 1890 bathing suit, an arrow pointing to the knee. Legends: Consider your Knee Cap!!! Don't Rasp Your Wife's Throat With Harsh Irritants. "Reach for a Hatchet Instead" . . . Ducky Wucky Cigarettes. "They're Hash Browned," Purified by Hot Air and Advertising Rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Anthony's Adlessness | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

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